Holding device for manuscripts, copies, and the like.



C. G. K. ROSENBERG.

HOLDING DEVICE FOR MANUSCRIPTS, COPIES, AND THE LIKE.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. I. 1913.

Patented Sept. 14, 1915.

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CARL GUSTAF KONSTANTIN ROSENBERG, OF STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN.

HOLDING DEVICE FOR MANUSCRIPTS, COPIES, AND THE LIKE.

Application filed December 1, 1913.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, CARL GUSTAF KON- STANTIN ROSENBERG, a subject of the King of Sweden, residing at Stockholm, in the Kingdom of Sweden, have invented new and useful Improvements in Holding Devices for Manuscripts, Copies, and the like, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the drawing accompanying and forming a part hereof.

The object of my invention is to provide means whereby a manuscript of any size and any thickness may be quickly and yet effectively secured to the holder.

The invention consists essentially in this, that the manuscript, copy or the like is held to the resting-plate by means of a plate, pane or the like, of a transparent material, placed upon the copy, but between this and the ruler. The ruler is movably at tached to the transparent plate or pane. Hereby the advantage is obtained, in the event of the ruler being slidable on a bar or the like attached to one edge of the transparent plate, that the ruler can be operated either from the right or the left side, by turning the plate, which preferably is loose, upside-down.

In the accompanying drawing there is illustrated one form of my invention.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the holding device. Fig. 2 shows a detail of the transparent plate in elevation and Fig. 3 the same from above.

The shown form of copy holder is essentially of the construction common for use with typewriting-machines and is provided with a base 1, to which is secured a resting-plate 2 for the copy. The resting-plate 2 is at its lower edge provided with a flange 3 against which the copy rests.

The copy is held to the restin -plate 2 by means of a plate 6 or the like 0 a transparent material, f. i., a glass pane of suitable Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 14, 1915. Serial No. 803,901.

thickness and weight, bearing against the flange 3, and laid upon the copy on the resting-plate 2 (the copy being indicated on the drawing with dashed and dotted lines). To one edge of the plate 6 is secured a bar 5 on which the ruler 4 is sliding. The plate 6 is placed over the copy on the resting-plate 2 in such manner that the ruler comes on the outside (the upper side) of the transparent plate so that the ruler may be moved up and down on this. The copy is thereby secured, on account of the pressure exerted by the transparent plate resting against it, in any desired position without manipulation of any securing means, and the ruler will act in the same manner as before without coming in contact with the copy. The transparent plate may, of course, be placed over the copy so that the bar comes on either the right or the left side of the resting-plate.

It is obvious that the invention is not limited to any particular arrangement for the guiding of the ruler, but the construction of such a guide can be made in arbitrary ways, Without departing from the principle and the scope of the invention.

Having now described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

In a holding device for manuscripts, copies and the like, the combination of a supporting plate, a loose plate of a transparent material adapted to hold the manuscript on to the supporting plate, a bar secured to the transparent plate, and a ruler adapted to slide on the bar on the outside of the plate, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

CARL GUSTAF KONSTANTIN ROSENBERG. Witnesses:

N. PERRY, FRnDRIK SoHMrrERLow. 

